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By LARRY SWEDROE Over the long term, small value stocks have rewarded investors with higher returns for their incremental risks. Over the...

By LARRY SWEDROE While growth stocks produced higher returns on assets and equities and faster growth in earnings than value stocks,...

Asset management, as Robin Powell, recently wrote, is the scary bill you never see . It's huge, and if investors were actually presented,...

It can be hard to stay disciplined in a bear market. In fact, the longer it goes on for, the harder it becomes. What’s more, the...

By LARRY SWEDROE Mutual funds (a type of institutional investor) are generally considered “smart money” that exploits the behavioral...

By LARRY SWEDROE In a recent article for The Evidence Based Investor I showed that while growth stocks have produced higher returns on...

By LARRY SWEDROE The expected rate of growth in future cash flows plays a pivotal role in investment analysis and valuations. It is the...

We often hear about the cost issue with active management and the fact that most active funds are effectively priced to fail. But, as JOE...

By LARRY SWEDROE Over the long term, small value stocks have rewarded investors with higher returns for their incremental risks. Over the...

This Thursday, 13th October, Bloomsbury will publish the new book by Robin Powell and JONATHAN HOLLOW, How To Fund The Life You Want ....

By LARRY SWEDROE Two strong trends have had a dramatic impact on the investment world over the past few decades — the rise of indexing...

Instead of focusing on cutting your food and fuel bills in the cost-of-living squeeze, find out what you're paying for investment...

Intuitively, you would expect there to be a positive correlation between GDP growth and stock returns. But what does the academic...

Actively managed UK equity funds have not fared as badly as most of their peers across Europe in recent years. But their performance in...

Robin writes: For many people, paying an evidence-based adviser to manage their investable assets makes perfect sense. But, let's be honest, many don’t need it, and many more either can’t afford that type of financial advice or at least would struggle to justify the expense. The good news is that, in both Britain and the United States, dawn is breaking on an exciting new era for advisers and consumers. It's an era in which it won't be just the wealthiest in society who enjoy

Luck plays a part in active fund management as it does in sport. But as CRAIG LAZZARA from S&P Dow Jones Indices explains, only genuine...

By LARRY SWEDROE The “conventional wisdom” — ideas that become so commonly accepted that they go unquestioned — on investing is often...

By LARRY SWEDROE The basic hypothesis of behavioural finance is that individual investors are not fully rational when making investment...

LARRY SWEDROE The 52-week high (52WH), the highest price a stock has traded for over the prior 365 days, is one of the key pieces of...

We're naturally drawn to stock market predictions. When someone who appears to be an expert says, for example, that the market is about...